Curated playlist
2024 mergers and acquisitions
- ComicBook.comComicBook.com began in 1996 as a holding page for sales links and press releases.
- Gamer NetworkTwo brothers in London launched Eurogamer on the 4th of September 1999. It became Gamer Network.
- The A.V. ClubThe A.V. Club once ran a review of a book that was not finished yet.
- Subway (restaurant)Subway began in 1965 with a $1,000 loan between friends. Fred DeLuca borrowed the money from Peter Buck and opened Pete's Drive-In: Super Submarine Sandwiches at 3851 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. As of September 2023, the…
- Discover (magazine)Discover magazine began when a Time editor saw that science covers sold better.
- Brill PublishersDutch publisher Brill sold its own printing arm to survive. The firm likened the sale to amputating its own limb.
- GizmodoGizmodo is an American website about design, technology, science, and science fiction, and its name is pronounced giz-MOH-doh. By the middle of 2004, the site and its sibling Gawker together brought in roughly $6,500 a month. That is a…
- CNETZiff Davis bought CNET in 2024 for $100 million, after selling it ZDNet for about $1.6 billion.
- Science SaruThe first home of Science Saru, a Japanese animation studio now based in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo, was a small suburban house. Someone had converted it into an improvised animation studio. By the end of 2013, the whole company numbered…
- De Gruyter BrillDe Gruyter Brill is a German scholarly publishing house, and its family tree begins with a royal sentence. In 1749, Frederick the Great gave the Königliche Realschule in Berlin a privilege. The school could open a bookstore and use it "to…